I Bet You NEVER Thought This About a Burns Statue
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- Опубликовано: 19 янв 2024
- Robert Burns at his best used everyday things to look at wider truths. You'll find his statues all over the world, but Scottish history tour guide Bruce Fummey tells the story of one statue and the events in Burns' life to examine some wider truths.
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Bruce, that was pure poetry. I get why the suffragettes gathered there. Not a queen, not a rich benefactress, but an ordinary lass on a plinth (plus the brilliant view).
He scratched a poem about a sheep in the cellar door of my bit when it was a pub built in 1741 in esk st Langtoon
Eloquent, fitting for a Burns adjacent video.
Absolutely brilliant, all I can say 🏴🏴
A ripping yarn, Bruce! Handfasting? Had to look that one up. As a wedding officiant, I have often used the symbolism of actually tying my stole around a couple's hands as if "tying the knot," not realizing that I was performing a "Handfasting" ceremony. Thanks for the story and for teaching an old dog a new trick.
Highland Mary is and was Burns' muse. She inspired him in life, and even more so in death. It is right, fitting and just, that we should honor her for inspiring Scotland's Bard and Poet.
I think that’s your best video, Bruce. Your commentaries are more than a history lesson; every facet (good and bad) of Scottish life is discussed, with some fantastic insights. I’ve said it before, but you should have a telly series. Sgonneil!!!! 🏴🏴
I adore the idea of a statue having four lives! Living in a Southern state in America it makes me think about the four lives of many statues in this area. Thank you for the thoughts I will be delving into. Now on to learn about the Campbell ancestors (which I have some in my tree). This makes me think of an Indigo Girls song lyrics that goes "...and now I'm serving time for mistakes made by another in another life time." As always, great video!
Hey there, I'm the guy in Auchterarder that turned to you in the shop and said 'you're the boy on RUclips' 🙈
There’s a Robert Burns statue in the heart of Halifax, Nova Scotia that’s served as a rallying point of all kinds of rallies and protests for progressive causes, most recently calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. The park behind it, named Victoria Park, is home to an ever-growing tent city as the housing crisis and rent prices keep increasing in the city. It’s an interesting bit of poetry that the park named after a queen who herself oversaw the displacement of many people from their homes - including in the Highlands - hosts so many displaced people being watched over by Burns - a sort of champion of the poor and forgotten
Turning our back on atrocities is difficult, but the right. Will stand and contemplate more statues, I will. Bless you Bruce
Thank you for this thoughtful recital. It's plain that Highland Mary never carried a sword or acted with perfidy or treachery. She was a love of Burns, a muse, the would-be mother of his child. He and his life were complex and it is understandable that he would love someone like her. I will be having a wee dram in Robert Burns honor in a couple of days, and I will have one for Highland Mary, too.
Bruce, You are a masterful storyteller!! You bring history to life! Kudos!
What a wonderful retelling of a story.
I lived in Dunoon and Kilmun with my parents, while my father was stationed on USS Canopus, as part of Holy Loch, Scotland; from 1972 to 1974.
Wow. Fascinating. I recently found an 1863 book of Burns's Works - volume 1 - in a op shop (Australia). I bought it as a present for my husband who was born in Clackmannanshire. My ancestors on my father's side were the clan MacBain/MacBean/MacBeth. My parents, who are no longer of this earth, told me of an ancestor who 'jumped ship' somewhere along the Queensland coast as he was in trouble with the law. Upon watching your youtube video about the 'Wild Scotsman' James MacPherson my mind went bonkers. Many of my fathers' family lived at or around Ipswich in Queensland. My Great Grandfather and Great Grandmother lived in Strathpine for a while...just south of Bald Hills. My Great Grandfather's name was James Palmer and he became the lighthouse keeper on Moreton Island in the early 1900's. No idea if this is in anyway connected, but I've gone down that rabbit hole. I'll keep digging...and I absolutely love your history of Scotland. Stay awesome!
That was a nice wee narration at the end, guid to have you back Bruce, glad yer no skiving aff for 2 weeks in a row ;-)
One of your very best, Bruce. Thank you.
I truly enjoyed and learned something from this video. I love that poem of Burns’ and quote it often. As an American my history includes a small conflict called the American Civil War. (There are other names) Now we are removing statues of Confederate Generals and placing them in museums or storage. Thank you for naming the four lives of a statue. I never thought of it in that way. I have stood on the battle field of Gettysburg with it many memorials to the men who fought there. I always come to the sayings of the Union soldiers that those statues belong to the men (and one woman) who fought and died on that ground. Than you for giving my brain a work out.